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08 Dec 09

Unix is a Four Letter Word

Unix is a popular operating system among engineers and scientists. Unix has a number of features that make it very appealing, particularly for those who have become heavily dependent on their computers. Unfortunately, Unix has a significant learning curve. For many, the trek up the learning curve reaps generous rewards in productivity in the long run. This document is designed to help beginning and intermediate users of Unix to conquer this learning curve quickly.

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10 Aug 09

Hudson’s Rather Random Homepage » How to fix windows xp sp3 usb/firewire boot hangs.

From site: "New or old xp install, pro, standard, tablet, doesn’t matter. You update to sp3, you reboot. Windows hangs at the loading bar forever and refuses to boot if you have any usb or firewire drives attached, sometimes even USB memory sticks or SD cards. Find out how to fix it after the jump."

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28 Jul 09

MacEnterprise.org

From site: "The MacEnterprise project is a community of IT professionals sharing information and solutions to support Macs in an enterprise. We collaborate on the deployment, management, and integration of Mac OS X client and server computers into multi-platform computing environments."

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15 Jul 09

Switch naar Mac

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22 Jun 09

Trying to hack a good night's sleep - Ars Technica

From site: "Quality of sleep is not something to be taken lightly, and yet so many geeks have trouble sleeping at night. Aside from the obvious (going to a doctor), there are a number of things you can try to get a better night's sleep, ranging from sleep-tracking alarm clocks to software that lulls you into a slumber."

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08 Jun 09

De zaakwaarnemer voor freelance ICT professionals - RulersGroup

From site: "Freelance ICT professionals plaatsen wij op opdrachten van eindklanten en preferred suppliers. Daarvoor rekenen wij een eerlijke en unieke eenmalige bemiddelingsfee."

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16 May 09

Linux Commands - A practical reference

From site: "This is a linux command line reference for common operations."

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23 Mar 09

Adobe - Adobe AIR: AIR for IT Administrators

From site: "The Adobe AIR runtime lets enterprises use web technologies like JavaScript, Flash, and Flex to deliver rich Internet applications on the desktop."

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16 Mar 09

Concatenate Column Values from Multiple Rows into a Single - MrExcel Message Board

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03 Feb 09

James Shore: The Decline and Fall of Agile

A very very (!) good article (and comments) about the declining (and misused) state of agile (mostly scrum).

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“I think this is very indicative of the desire among managers especially to want to believe in a process or formula, and to fail to recognise the comparitively massive impact of the quality of the people in the team on project outcomes. 
 
Basically, great developers tend to do good work, and bad developers tend to do poor work, and no process or methodology can fix that. 
 
The real problem that successive methodologies have tried to solve is that the majority of professional software developers don't actually know how to write good code. 
 
Scrum is just the latest competence substitute, and it understandably falls just as short as all its predecessors. 
 
Invest in the people, their skills and in helping them to exercise discipline and reward good habits. Sadly, it's not a quick fix, which is why most organisations don't bother. 
 
The missing ingredient from the Agile Manifesto is CRAFTSMANSHIP. It's like a whole bunch of musicians running around trying to look cool and talking about their "art" when the vast majority can't play a major scale. The problem is that teams adopt Agile before they've learned all the "hard skills" that the Agile founders like Kent Beck and Bob Martin take for granted, like OO design. But they talk about software development as if they've mastered it, when all they've really mastered is planning poker and how to run a retrospective. They still write poorly constructed, buggy and ummaintainable code. Because it takes years to learn how to write elegant, well-constructed and reliable code. And why waste years honing those skills when you can get Scrum Certified in a week? 
 
Sadly, all these apprentices don't know what they don't know and simply will not accept that they have much to learn (as do we all!)

Now many people who call me already have Agile in place (they say), but they're struggling. They're having trouble meeting their iteration commitments, they're experiencing a lot of technical debt, and testing takes too long. So they hire me to help them with one of these things. When I go visit, I see a team that is nominally agile, but is suffering huge numbers of problems and is anything but the joyful, settled, smooth-running workplace I expect from an agile organization.

Other consultants I've talked to report the same experience. "Rescuing Scrum teams keeps me in business," joked one colleague. It's funny because it's true.
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- But because Scrum works in short cycles and doesn't include any engineering practices, it's very easy for teams using Scrum to throw out design. Up-front design doesn't work when you're using short cycles, and Scrum doesn't provide a replacement. Without continuous, incremental design, Scrum teams quickly dig themselves a gigantic hole of technical debt. Two or three years later, I get a call--or one of my colleagues does. "Changes take too long and cost too much!" I hear. "Teach us about test-driven development, or pairing, or acceptance testing!" By that time, fixing the real problems requires paying back a lot of technical debt, and could take years.
- What frustrates me the most is that this situation is entirely avoidable. In a green-field environment, the solid agile engineering practices included in Extreme Programming pay for themselves within the first few months. Without XP's agile engineering practices, code quality and productivity asymptotically decreases over time. With them, productivity starts lower, but then it asymptotically increases. I can't prove it, but my sense is that the two curves cross at about the eight-week mark. Maybe sooner. Agile engineering practices aren't only important--they pay for themselves! Doing anything else is pure negligence... if you understand your options. Scrum is silent on the matter.
- Agile development isn't just about good engineering practices. It's also about acknowledging the importance of people in software development, forming cross-functional teams, obtaining high-bandwidth communication, constantly reflecting and improving, delivering value, and changing plans to take advantage of opportunities.
- Scrum includes these other points.
- Oh, and it also has a few mechanical things about a monthly Sprint and daily Scrum. Trivial stuff compared to the rest. But guess which part people adopt? That's right--Sprints and Scrums. Rapid cycles, but none of the good stuff that makes rapid cycles sustainable.
- They're don't have on-site customers or work in cross-functional teams. They don't even finish all of their stories by the end of each Sprint, let alone deliver releasable software, and they certainly don't use good engineering practices.
- These teams say they're Agile, but they're just planning (and replanning) frequently. Short cycles and the ability to re-plan are the benefit that Agile gives you. It's the reward, not the method. These psuedo-Agile teams are having dessert every night and skipping their vegetables. By leaving out all the other stuff--the stuff that's really Agile--they're setting themselves up for rotten teeth, an oversized waistline, and ultimate failure. They feel good now, but it won't last.
- It's human nature to only do the stuff that's familiar and fun, and that's what has happened with Agile. People look at agile methods as a chinese menu of practices, choose the few that look cool, and ditch the rest. Unfortunately, the parts they leave out are the parts that make Agile work. Scrum makes it worse by ignoring important (but hard) agile engineering practices, and the Scrum Alliance makes it worse still with their armies of trainers--some good, some not--issuing dubious "ScrumMaster" certificates to people who demonstrated competence in connecting butt to chair for two days.
- Most teams are mostly made up of the 90% of developers out there who do poor quality work and who don't take pride in their craft and who actually don't know how to do it better. And it takes months and years to master displines like TDD, refactoring and OO design to a standard that can deliver the flattened cost of change curve that we rely on to accomodate change.
  
  It took me years. It took Bob Martin years. It took Ward Cunningham years. It took Steve Freeman years. (not that I'm in their league, of course). And do you need to be as good as me to deliver high quality software? Well yeah. Actually, you do. I'm just a journeyman.
  
  Let's get this absolutely clear: software development is HARD. Hard like playing professional chess. Hard like playing the classical piano. Hard like brain surgery.
  
  The basic moves may take weeks to pick up, but to reach a level of genuine competence takes much, much longer.
- I'm defining "journeyman" as "mindful, curious, and always trying to improve." "Apprentice" is "don't know what I don't know, and don't care." It's not so much skills & knowledge as it is attitude, in my opinion.

28 Jan 09

10+ ways to overcome bureaucratic obstacles | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com

From site: "Being thwarted by a bureaucratic roadblock can be a huge aggravation. Your task may be simple, but some red tape, regulation, or gatekeeper stands squarely in your path. Calvin Sun offers some advice to help you remove the barriers and get back on track."

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When faced with obstacles or frustration, it’s common to focus so much on them that we forget what we really want. Then, when the person in charge asks us, we hesitate and stutter because we haven’t thought things through.
8: Document the situation
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- No matter how frustrating the situation, be gracious if and when you get your way. A “thank you” takes little time and effort, but is a nice touch and can make things easier for you the next time.
- When all else fails, remember the serenity prayer: Ask for courage to change what you can, serenity to accept what you can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.

12 Jan 09

Apple - Support - Discussions - Go>Connect to Server Missing ...

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I'm trying to connect to a computer via bonjour that I know the address of, but the "connect to server" command is missing from the Go menu. I have file sharing turned on. I'm not sure what is wrong. Thanks.
in your main account delete the file homedirectory/library/preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. then control-option-click on finder in the dock and choose "relaunch". this will reset finder prefs to the defaults.
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- You probably used one of those "set hidden finder features" apps/utils, didn't you... naughty person you is... If you open up ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist with Property List Editor and see an entry for "ProhibitConnectTo", then thats the problem. Set it to false and save the changes. Then Control-Option-Click on the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch. When the Finder comes back up, Connect To should be available again.
- If you don't want to edit the plist, you can also just drag com.apple.finder.plist to the trash, control-option-click on the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch. When the Finder comes back up, Connect To should be available again.

05 Jan 09

10 things to check before you start working on the help desk | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com

If you’re getting ready to jump into the help desk fray, you’ll probably want to iron out a few things first. Veteran tech Jeff Dray learned this the hard way, and he shares some advice on what you should do before you take that first call.

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16 Dec 08

creating a new folder via code - ColdFusion

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Hey Katy,

to create a a folder, use this syntax

<cfdirectory directory= "#ExpandPath( '.\NewFolder\' )#" action="create">

Now we've just created this,

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05 Dec 08

Uploading files in Flex using the FileReference class at Flex Examples

Question on weather it is possible to import and display an image in a Flex app (Flash Player 9) without sending it to the server first. Also asking weather it's possible to upload a file using RemoteObjects instead of HTTP service (URLRequest).

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Hello,

I don’t think Paul’s question was answered and my questions goes in a similar direction.

Is there a way to get the image data from the FileReference object? Or is there another objet that would allow me to?

The reason is, I would like to covert the image data to a bitearray and send it with other information to AMFPHP as a remote Object.

I’ve been looking around for an example or tutorial that would come close to this but I can’t find one that actually show how to get the user to load (import) the image in my flex app. from a filebrowser like component.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

-Alain
Alain,

Similarly, you’d have to use the FileReference object to have the user select a file from their operating system. Next, you would need to upload the file to a server to save the file and then redownload the image and get the image data that way (for the same reasons as above, Flash Player doesn’t allow for immediate data access without sending the data to the server).

You may want to ask the same question on a high traffic list like FlexCoders and see if anybody else has any clever solutions or workarounds.

Peter

Introduction Articles to Flex and Coldfusion

From site: "This is a collection of presentations, articles, and tips to help new users of Flex understand how to power their Flex applications using Coldfusion."

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21 Nov 08

creacog » flex, mac, external browser

A workaround to the "multiple open copies error" in Flex Builder 3 when trying to open the Flex help contents in Firefox when it is already opened.

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We are setting up Builder to launch the help pages into an external browser. The key advantage of which being that the code samples can then be copy/pasted. On a Mac there is a recognised bug in eclipse that if you choose Firefox as the external browser, and it is NOT your normal system default browser. Basically Eclipse attempts to launch a second instance of Firefox which will generate the “Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time” dialogue…

Mac Tricks and Tips, Wallpapers and Applications for Mac Users

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27 Oct 08

CMS Made Simple Forum: get parameters from UDT

A forum thread with explanations on how to read variables that are defined in a User Defined Tag (UDT) in CMS Made Simple.

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get parameters from UDT
Hello, how can i get parameter from UDT to content page?
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- Here is the full code how to do it.
  in UDT:
  
  Code:
  $yourvar = 'text';
  
  global $gCms;
  $smarty = &$gCms->GetSmarty();
  $smarty->assign('mytitle', $yourvar);
  
  Then in your template after UDT is called, you can get your new variable by printing
  Code:
  {$mytitle}

The most common pitfalls that new tech managers face | View from the Cubicle | TechRepublic.com

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